cottonINTERNATIONAL genome Second Circular INITIATIVE (Call for Abstracts / Papers)

International Cotton Genome Initiative ICGI–2004 Workshop

October 10-13, 2004 at Hotel Taj Krishna , , (Optional Study Tours, October 14, 15, 16)

Organised under the Auspices of Indian Society for Cotton Improvement (ISCI)

with support of Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Department of , Government of India, New Delhi

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Abstract Submission Abstract should be submitted via the ICGI web site: http://icgi.tamu.edu/meeting/2004/abstracts.html cottonINTERNATIONAL genome INITIATIVE International Workshop Organizing Committee (IWOC) Chair Members Dr. David Stelly Dr. John Yu Dr. Tianzhen Zhang Dr. Jodi Scheffler Co-Chair Dr. R S Paroda Dr. Sukumar Saha Dr. C D Mayee Dr. G Kalloo Vice Chair Dr. V R Gadwal Dr. R J Kohel Dr. S Sreenivasan

Local Working Organizing Committee Chair Mr. P Vidyasagar

National Workshop Organizing Committee (NWOC) Dr. V R Gadwal, Chairman Mr. P Vidyasagar Dr. G Kalloo, Co-Chairman Dr. S S Narayanan Dr. M V Rao Dr. K K Tripathi Dr. M K Bhan Dr. P V Varadarajan Mr. Raju Barwale Dr. T V Ramanaiah Dr. C D Mayee Dr. K R Koundal Dr. K C Jain Dr. S A Patil Dr. Phundan Singh Mr. M Prabhakar Rao Dr. S Sreenivasan Dr. B M Khadi Dr. G R Anap Dr. A K Basu Dr. V Santhanam Dr. M S Kairon Dr. T P Rajendran Dr. S G Gayal Dr. A Padma Raju

Local Workshop Organizing Committee Mr. P Vidyasagar, Overall Chairman

Registration Committee Dr. R H Balasubramanya, Chairman Dr. S G Gayal Dr. R P Nachane Mr. S N Nagwekar Dr. R M Gurjar Mr. Shrish R Shah Dr. A J Shaikh Dr. A B Dongre Finance Committee Dr. C D Mayee, Chairman Dr. G R Anap Mr. P Vidyasagar Dr. T V Ramanaiah Mr. Prabhakar Rao Mr. A S Yawalkar Mr. M Ramasami Dr. T P Rajendran Mr. M G Shembekar Dr. S G Gayal Dr. P V Varadarajan Hospitality Committee (Mumbai) Dr. K M Paralikar, Chairman Dr. B M Vithal Dr. R M Gurjar Mr. Hariharan Iyer Dr. Anupam Barik Mr. A K Gupta Dr. P K Chakrabarty Dr. V V Singh cottonINTERNATIONAL genome INITIATIVE Local Souvenir Committee (Souvenir on Cotton in India) Dr. A K Basu, Chairman Dr. B M Khadi Dr. N B Patil Dr. T P Rajendran Dr. R H Balasubramanya Dr. S S Narayanan Dr. K R Krishna Iyer Dr. K R Kranthi Dr. Phundan Singh Dr. A J Shaikh Hyderabad Committee Dr. S S Narayanan (Chairman) Mr. M Prabhakar Rao Dr. B Gopal Reddy (Co-Chairman) Mr. P S Dravid Mr. Ram V Kaundinya Dr. Tom Hash Dr. Y Yogeshwar Rao Dr. Shivaramakrishnan Major Sponsors: International Indian Cotton Incorporated Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Delta & Pine Land Company Department of Bio-Technology (GOI) Company Vibha Agrotech Ltd. USDA – ARS Nuziveedu Seeds Emergent Genetics, Inc. Rasi Seeds The Cotton Foundation MAHYCO Crop Science Emergent Genetics Dow Agro Science Ankur Seeds Tulasi Seeds About the ICGI Workshop INTERNATIONAL COTTON GENOME INITIATIVE (ICGI) was founded by a small group of researchers on cotton at Canberra, Australia during the year 2000. ICGI initiated with the major purpose of increasing the knowledge of structure and function of the cotton genome for the benefit of global community (http :/icgi.tamu.edu). Aims are to facilitate global communications, collabora- tion and education, increase knowledge, and resource integration, enhance technology and resource development and help coordinate research planning in the areas of cotton genomics. Meetings were held in Canberra, 2000 (Australia) and Montpellier, 2001 (France). The last meeting was the first Scientific ICGI Workshop and was held in Nanjing, China hosted by Nanjing Agricultural University. It was attended